Author: Mrs Wander
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How to Recover from the Camino in Portugal
After two big physical challenges, we finally planned some time for rest and recovery. Some part of doing a shorter Camino was making sure we had enough time in our EU Visa to explore the wine country of Portugal! This actually isn’t the first time we used wine as incentive to complete a challenge, one…
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Testing My Limits on a Pilgrimage in Spain
At the end of last week, we took a rest day in the hope my feet would have some time to heal and our blisters could finally callus over, but we jumped right back in with a pretty big hill climb. I keep going back and forth on how much suffering one should endure on…
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How to Become a Pilgrim in Spain
This week we started an adventure that has been on our list since we started planning this year of travel, the Camino de Santiago! The last few months we had been trying to add longer walks to prepare ourselves for the mileage. We also convinced our parents to take some extra items back with them…
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Making New Friends on a Cycle Adventure Through Wales
If you take 45 strangers from across the world with one thing in common: being a subscriber to the same YouTube channel; and you give them a cycling challenge through the balmy Welsh weather, what happens? Honestly I wasn’t sure what was going to happen beyond having some tired muscles, but I never would have…
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A Train Adventure through Slovenia and Switzerland
This week we continued our adventure with Mr. Wander’s parents through Slovenia and Switzerland until it was time to say farewell to them as well. This is the first time I’ve ever visited a country for less than 24 hours so that was a new experience, but we definitely got our fill of trains, delays,…
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Navigating Through the Natural Wonders of Croatia
After a flight from Athens to Dubrovnik, we rented what should have been a mini van for the 6 of us to drive up the coast. We got to see some of my favorite things, waterfalls, and a super cool musical instrument played by nature. After a week of hopping between towns we made our…
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Embracing my Licorice Obsession in Greece and Turkey
We had five more days aboard our cruise, two at sea and three at port in Izmir, Santorini, and Mykonos. Both on and off the ship I was able to taste some delicious licorice, or anise, flavored liquors, both individually and as part of delicious cocktails. After we disembarked our cruise, we spent a few…
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Testing Out a New Travel Guide Career in Italy
I’m only kidding, we have no plans to start a travel guide business, at least not yet. However it does take some extra planning and a bit of a change in our normal travel style to accommodate four others who will be travelling with us for nearly a month. By the way, have you guessed…
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Sidestepping Crowds in the European Summer
We spent three weeks after leaving the UK hopping between the Netherlands, Germany, and Austria by train. Between a few colds and excessive heat warnings we didn’t spend every day sightseeing, so instead of a play-by-play I’ll mainly give you an overview of the sights we did see in each city. I am glad we…
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Learning to Slow Down in Manchester, UK
After turning in the campervan we were ready to stay in one spot for awhile. We spent most of the next two weeks in Manchester but about halfway through we took a train to visit a few friends we met on our trip in Vietnam and Cambodia. This was definitely a highlight of our time…